The top 10 songs from last week's chart went on to this week's. Four veteran songs being eliminated at once isn't a new precedence (I think), but taking out two very strong competitors past their fifth week might be. The EOY chart takes no prisoners, it seems.

Here is your 2014 AMF Chart playlist of all songs on the chart so far:

Thank you all for voting and nominating continuously every week! Please don't be afraid to supply us with nominations - all songs six months old and younger (or who have received promotion via album/video/single in the last six months) are accepted! And seconding nominations by others' gives those songs a better chance at making the next poll!

As per usual, the next poll will be created as close to Sunday at 19:00 GMT as I can make it. Best of voting!

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Please note that while the EOY song spreadsheet is being updated, the rules for nominations have changed to the following:

1. Songs from new albums on the Megacritic chart2. Nominations, one per voter3. The highest placed songs in the current eoy spreadsheet (skipping the 6 months rule)

Please also feel free to suggest changes and discuss the new rules. They were suggested by Henrik, however we are very open to feedback! We are still in an experimental run of the AMF Chart, after all.

Hey Guys, great job on this web-site! It's apparent that a lot of passionate work and energy goes into it. Please never stop...

I particularly like this forum. I find it fascinating on so many levels. Here are a couple of my thoughts and suggestions for the new rule changes:

1. I like the idea of extending the eligibility window from 6 months to one year. As Henrik has suggested it is pretty apparent that we are all discovering some cool 'new-to-our-ears' music on the numerous end of year charts. This would also allow for deeper cuts from albums that in many cases are stronger than their singles releases (check out our very own Hall-Of-Famer 'Outlier' by Spoon).

2. Should we extend that eligibility window, (and also now that we only allow one nomination per voter), I'd like to see us somehow limit the weekly list of 20 songs in contention to one track per artist. I know that personally I have found that even though 2 tracks from the same artist on any given week may be, in my opinion, worthy of two votes I have a hard time pulling the trigger and sending those precious votes to one artist.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their ears and turning me on to a lot of new music! Rock On!

Rdwdbob wrote:Hey Guys, great job on this web-site! It's apparent that a lot of passionate work and energy goes into it. Please never stop...

I particularly like this forum. I find it fascinating on so many levels. Here are a couple of my thoughts and suggestions for the new rule changes:

1. I like the idea of extending the eligibility window from 6 months to one year. As Henrik has suggested it is pretty apparent that we are all discovering some cool 'new-to-our-ears' music on the numerous end of year charts. This would also allow for deeper cuts from albums that in many cases are stronger than their singles releases (check out our very own Hall-Of-Famer 'Outlier' by Spoon).

2. Should we extend that eligibility window, (and also now that we only allow one nomination per voter), I'd like to see us somehow limit the weekly list of 20 songs in contention to one track per artist. I know that personally I have found that even though 2 tracks from the same artist on any given week may be, in my opinion, worthy of two votes I have a hard time pulling the trigger and sending those precious votes to one artist.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their ears and turning me on to a lot of new music! Rock On!

I agree with both statements from Rdwdbob. And I also second the statement "Please never stop".

In addition to 2. : I patiently waited with nominating Sharon van Etten's "Every TIme the Sun Comes Up" until "Our Love" had entered the Hall of Fame. This week we see two songs from her in the chart, which leads to a kind of cannibalism, not so nice in my humble opinion ...

Setherex wrote:Please note that while the EOY song spreadsheet is being updated, the rules for nominations have changed to the following:

1. Songs from new albums on the Megacritic chart2. Nominations, one per voter3. The highest placed songs in the current eoy spreadsheet (skipping the 6 months rule)

Please also feel free to suggest changes and discuss the new rules. They were suggested by Henrik, however we are very open to feedback! We are still in an experimental run of the AMF Chart, after all.

To be honest, I am not so happy with rule 3. In my opinion, the chart should be about new, "fresh" and "crunchy" songs, not about if the song was in some eoy list.

The Alvvays song, for instance, is longer known and comes from their 2013 album. As much as I like the song myself, it is a bit strange to have it now in the chart.

Setherex wrote:Please note that while the EOY song spreadsheet is being updated, the rules for nominations have changed to the following:

1. Songs from new albums on the Megacritic chart2. Nominations, one per voter3. The highest placed songs in the current eoy spreadsheet (skipping the 6 months rule)

Please also feel free to suggest changes and discuss the new rules. They were suggested by Henrik, however we are very open to feedback! We are still in an experimental run of the AMF Chart, after all.

To be honest, I am not so happy with rule 3. In my opinion, the chart should be about new, "fresh" and "crunchy" songs, not about if the song was in some eoy list.

The Alvvays song, for instance, is longer known and comes from their 2013 album. As much as I like the song myself, it is a bit strange to have it now in the chart.

I would agree with Andre on this one. Highest placed songs on the eoy spreadsheet are fine as long as they were released within that year and not carry-overs from the preceding one.

I'm actually of the opinion against the EOY rule changes at the moment. I do appreciate the experiment, and think it was worth testing, but after these last two weeks of vote, I have to say that I'm against doing it in the future.

I agree with Andre - the AMF chart was one of my sources throughout the year for finding "fresh" new music nominated by our peers (and a bit by the MegaCritic chart). Though the EOY songs do have a good reason to be on the chart, they aren't fresh, and their addition to the voting pool feels forced.

And not only that, but it also seems to be subduing the "fresh" nominations that our peers have been making. Because of the EOY additions, Cold War Kids' "All This Could Be Yours" was eliminated right before it would have surely made the Hall of Fame, and by the looks of it, Lana Del Rey's "Florida Kilos" could be eliminated this week. Both were entirely peer-supported until this point, and it's a shame that they've been overwhelmed by the onslaught of EOY pickings.

Of course, I am very open to nominating in songs from the EOY chart that we like, but not necessarily by just including them in without support. Limiting ourselves to one nomination per week is also a bit hindering (how am I supposed to pick just one D'Angelo song??? Come on, now).

As for all of the other suggestions, I'm a bit uneven on extending the nomination period to a year. I think it could work, as long as we make the guidelines a bit more specific - do we include songs based on their initial release only, or songs that have more recently gotten promotion through music videos, single releases, album releases, etc.? I would rather include a mid-2013 song that is just now receiving good attention (e.g. Alvvays) than a 2014 song that hasn't had much promotion in the last 11 months (e.g. Sun Kil Moon).

I'm against limiting artists to one song each. It seems to me that every time an artist has two songs on the chart, the better song makes it out, our voters do a good job of voting on quality over politics. The AMF chart should be based on the best songs of the moment, independent of what artist, album, or genre they come from - if that means two or three or four songs by one artist, so be it. I'll still just vote for the ones I like most

That being said, I'm supportive of what the community wants, of course. I would just mainly like it if we could tie our rules down a bit more into something (A) that's clear and concise in terms of qualification, (B) allows for songs to be voted and nominated purely over their quality over where they came from or who they're by, (C) puts more emphasis on opinions of our Forum voters, rather than the critics who vote in the MegaCritic / EOY chart.

Oh! And the new poll is tomorrow. Vote and nominate please! My nomination for this week (despite all my D'Angelo praise) is Kendrick Lamar's untitled "Colbert Report" performance.

Here are my takes on the nomination rules/ process:- I think Setherex made his point here,the EOY could be a good reference, but by no mean we need to nominate every single ones here.- I would love to see the 10 nomination songs from every week to be more diverse, in term of genres and artists (wouldn't it nice if each week we have songs from rock, pop, country, dance, metal, folk... genres to choose from instead of songs from the same artists?)- so I'm also against the idea of many songs from the same artist on the same week.- Songs that are 6 month old or songs from artists that released an album on that same week would be qualify.- I still think 12 weeks (exactly 3 months) for a song to qualify Hall of Fame would make a HoF more privileged.- In my opinion, a song that 1 year old could be qualify, if there is someone else second it.

And I still don't know how you process and rank songs that having the same vote. If we could understand the process better we can make some suggestion to eliminate the same ranking issue.

My intention of the chart was that the greatest recent music should be covered, and if the Cold War Kids song was eliminated because of the EOY additions, to me that means that better songs finally got their chance. It would be a lot better though if songs from the first half of a year could be found through mid-year critics' lists.

The nominations from peers have been great. I have lots of favorite songs from 2014 that I would not have discovered otherwise. During these last weeks there have still been room for one nomination per voter, so it's not that we have eliminated this feature.

However, as the host of these polls Setherex, your word should weight a lot higher than mine.

Maybe we should set up polls for people to vote on these outstanding issues? - EOY catch up (yes/no) - 6 months or 12 months window - limit to one song per artist (yes/no) - ...?

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